In the ici cancellation method for ofdm communication system, a receiver performs channel estimation using pilot subcarriers included in transmission signals transmitted from at least one transmitter. The transmitter generates the transmission signal in which pilot subcarriers and data subcarriers are regularly arranged, performs preceding on the transmission signal, modulates the pre-coded transmission signal into an ofdm symbol, and transmits the ofdm symbol. The receiver receives the ofdm symbol; demodulates the ofdm symbol, detects the pilot subcarriers from a demodulated signal, estimates channels using the pilot subcarriers, and restores the transmission signal using the estimated channels.
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12. A precoding method for use in an ofdm (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) communication system in which a receiver performs channel estimation using pilot subcarriers included in transmission signals transmitted from at least one transmitter, comprising:
arranging at least one pilot subcarrier group including a plurality of subcarriers in a regular interval in association with data subcarriers in a transmission signal;
precoding the transmission signal; and
modulating the pre-coded transmission signal into an ofdm symbol,
wherein the step of precoding the transmission signal comprises:
generating a precoding matrix according to an arrangement of the at least one pilot subcarrier group; and
multiplying the transmission signal by the precoding matrix,
wherein the precoding matrix includes first and second matrices being multiplied by the at least one pilot subcarrier group and the data subcarriers, respectively.
16. An ofdm communication system including a transmitter for transmitting a symbol having data signals and pilot signals, and a receiver for receiving the symbol to recover the data signals, wherein the transmitter comprises:
a modulator for modulating input data signals to output a modulation signal according to at least one modulation scheme;
a pilot inserter for inserting pilot signals into the modulation signal to output a transmission signal;
a pre-coder for precoding the transmission signal to output a pre-coded signal; and
an ofdm modulator for ofdm-modulating the pre-coded signal into a symbol and transmitting the symbol over an antenna,
wherein the pre-coder generates a precoding matrix according to an arrangement of the pilot signals and multiplies the transmission signal by the precoding matrix,
the precoding matrix includes first and second matrices, the first matrix being multiplied with the pilot signals and second matrix being multiplied with the data signals and non-diagonal entries of zeros, and
the pilot signals include at least one pilot group arranged in a regular interval in association with the data signals.
1. An ici (Inter-channel Interference) cancellation method for use in an ofdm (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) communication system in which a receiver performs channel estimation using pilot subcarriers included in transmission signals transmitted from at least one transmitter, the method comprising:
generating a transmission signal in which pilot subcarriers and data subcarriers are regularly arranged;
precoding the transmission signal;
modulating the pre-coded transmission signal into an ofdm symbol;
transmitting the ofdm symbol;
receiving the ofdm symbol;
demodulating the ofdm symbol;
detecting the pilot subcarriers from the demodulated signal;
estimating channels using the pilot subcarriers; and
restoring the transmission signal using the estimated channels,
wherein the step of precoding the transmission signal comprises:
generating a precoding matrix according to an arrangement of the pilot subcarriers; and
multiplying the transmission signal by the precoding matrix and
the precoding matrix includes first matrices being multiplied with the pilot subcarriers, second matrices being multiplied with the data subcarriers, and non-diagonal entries of 0's.
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removing interference caused by the pilot subcarriers; and
recovering the transmission signal with the interference removed signal.
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an ofdm demodulator for demodulating the symbol received through an antenna into the pre-coded signal;
a channel estimator for detecting the pilot signals from the pre-coded signal and estimating channels using the pilot signals;
an equalizer for restoring the modulation signal using an estimation value estimated by the channel estimator and removing the pilot signals from the modulation signal; and
a demodulator for demodulating output of the equalizer with the modulation scheme identical with that of the modulator to recover the input data signals.
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This application claims priority to an application entitled “ICI CANCELLATION METHOD FOR OFDM SYSTEM”, filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Off ice on Oct. 27, 2003 and assigned Serial No. 2003-75197, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication system, and more particularly to a method for cancelling Inter-Channel Interferences (ICIs) using a precoding technique.
2. Description of the Related Art
Recently, OFDM has been considered as representative fundamental technology of the next generation mobile communication system for supporting a requisite transfer rate of the next generation mobile communication service. The OFDM system compensates for frequency selective channels using a plurality of simple one-tap equalizers, such that it has simple equalization complexity. The OFDM system enables individual subcarrier bands to overlap with each other using orthogonality characteristics, resulting in high bandwidth efficiency. Therefore, the conventional broadband systems such as wireless LANs and DSLs have adopted the OFDM system as a data transmission scheme. However, in the mobile communication system using the OFDM, a channel variation between a transmission end and a reception end, due to the movement of the user, causes a serious problem.
The next generation mobile communication service uses a high frequency band of a maximum 5 GHz, and has a predetermined speed of 250 km per hour as a maximum moving speed of a user, resulting in the occurrence of a considerably high channel variation. If the OFDM system is used to obviate the aforementioned problem, there arises a channel variation in an OFDM symbol, such that an unexpected ICI occurs because of lost inter-channel orthogonality, resulting in deterioration of system performance.
In other words, an ICI occurs on the condition that a channel variation occurs in a single OFDM symbol interval. Therefore, in the case of using a general one-tap equalizer, there arise structural problems, for example, deterioration of detection performance, and a high Bit Error Rate (BER), because channel estimation is performed assuming that the inter-channel orthogonality is maintained even though it is not maintained in a real condition.
The research method for solving the aforementioned problems is largely classified into two research methods. A first research method uses modulation/demodulation methods to cancel ICI. A second research method is a new architecture equalization scheme, which performs channel modeling according to time-varying characteristics to perform channel estimation and uses a time-varying channel parameter.
A representative ICI cancellation method that is well known in the art is an ICI-self-cancellation modulation/demodulation scheme. In a modulation mode, the ICI-self-cancellation modulation/demodulation scheme transmits signals to be transmitted over even subcarriers, and transmits negative(−) values of the signals transmitted to the even subcarriers to odd subcarriers. In a demodulation mode, the ICI-self-cancellation modulation/demodulation scheme subtracts signals received in the odd subcarriers from the other signals received in the even subcarriers in such a way that it can recover the original signal. The demodulated subcarrier reception signal cancels its own ICI in such a way that a transmission signal passes through a single-path channel using an approximation method. The aforementioned ICI cancellation method uses a DPSK (Differential Phase Shift Keying) scheme, and does not consider time-varying channel estimation.
However, the aforementioned ICI cancellation method uses only even subcarriers to transmit data, and uses odd subcarriers to cancel ICI, resulting in 50% band efficiency. Also, the ICI cancellation method uses the DPSK modulation scheme, resulting in lower frequency selectivity. Because the frequency selectivity makes a double effect to the DPSK performance, the low frequency selectivity significantly deteriorates the system performance.
Further, if the total number of subcarriers increases to lower the frequency selectivity, the length of OFDM symbol interval also increases, such that a high channel variation occurs in a single OFDM symbol interval and an ICI excessively increases to make it impossible to perform ICI cancellation, resulting in system performance deterioration.
A conventional time-varying channel estimation/equalization method proposed an improved method capable of modeling a channel variation in the OFDM symbol, and estimating a time-varying channel parameter using a pilot subcarrier. The conventional time-varying channel estimation/equalization method also disclosed a method for arranging pilot subcarriers to acquire optimum channel estimation performance. Although this channel estimation method can estimate a channel varying with time, it unavoidably deteriorates channel estimation performance due to the increasing ICI when the channel variation increases. In this case, although the number of pilot subcarriers may increase to improve the channel estimation performance, a large number of pilot subcarriers are required to reduce the ICI influence, resulting in serious deterioration of band efficiency.
Provided that the time-varying channel estimation value is given, the OFDM system may use a variety of time-channel equalization methods. Provided that the total number of subcarriers of the OFDM system is set to N, a transmission signal vector is set to X=[X(0), . . . , X(N−1)]T, a reception signal vector is set to Y=[Y(0), . . . , Y(N−1)]T, and an AWGN noise vector having dimensions of N×1 is set to W, the relationship between transmission and reception signals is denoted by Equation 1.
Y=HX+W (1)
The N×N matrix H, which is in the form of a diagonal matrix with the orthogonality between the subcarriers, shows as a matrix of which entries are fully non-zero under the influence of the ICI. Equalization is a process for finding an X-vector from a Y-vector using H-matrix entries acquired from the time-varying channel estimation value.
In a conventional equalization technique, the matrix H is considered with fully non-zero entries so as to use an inverse matrix of H for equalization. Other known equalization technique uses the characteristic in that the diagonal entries and their peripherals of the matrix H have high value relative to remaining ones even when the ICI exists, so as to simplify the inverse matrix calculation complexity by assuming that the diagonal entries and their peripherals are non-zero. However, the first equalization technique requires much calculation complexity in proportional with the number of subcarriers such that it is unpractical in real system. Additionally, the second technique has a problem in that the equalization performance deteriorates due to the difference between the assumption of large ICI and the real ICI environment.
The equalization technique for a time-varying channel has more disadvantages in that it unavoidably increases channel estimation error due to the ICI especially when the mobile terminal moves in high velocity.
As described above, the conventional ICI cancellation modulation/demodulation techniques has drawbacks in that the low frequency selectivity decreases the system performance and the utilization of the half of total subcarriers for ICI cancellation decreases the bandwidth efficiency.
Also, the conventional equalization technique has drawbacks in that the estimation performance considerably decreases in the time varying channel due to the large ICI and the bandwidth efficiency decreases when increasing the number of the pilot subcarriers for enhancing the channel estimation performance.
Therefore, the present invention has been designed in view of the above and other problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an ICI cancellation method for use in an OFDM system, which is capable of removing ICI using a preceding technique so as to enhance the channel estimation performance.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an ICI cancellation method for use in an OFDM system, which is capable of reducing the equalization complexity by removing interfering the pilot subcarriers with the data subcarriers.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide an ICI cancellation method for use in an OFDM system, which cancels data subcarriers components interfering with the pilot subcarriers for accurate channel estimation and pilot subcarriers components interfering with the data subcarriers for equalization using a precoding technique, thereby improving the overall system performance.
To achieve the above and other objects, an ICI cancellation method for use in an OFDM communication system is provided, in which a receiver performs channel estimation using pilot subcarriers included in transmission signals transmitted from at least one transmitter. The method comprises: generating, at the transmitter, the transmission signal in which pilot subcarriers and data subcarriers are regularly arranged; preceding the transmission signal; modulating a pre-coded transmission signal into an OFDM symbol; transmitting the OFDM symbol; receiving, at the receiver, the OFDM symbol; demodulating the OFDM symbol; detecting the pilot subcarriers from a demodulated signal; estimating channels using the pilot subcarriers; and restoring the transmission signal using the estimated channels.
In another aspect of the present invention, a precoding method for use in an OFDM communication system is provided, in which a receiver performs channel estimation using pilot subcarriers included in transmission signals transmitted from at least one transmitter. This method comprises: arranging at least one pilot subcarrier group including a plurality of subcarriers so as to be arranged in a regular interval in association with the data subcarriers in a transmission signal; preceding the transmission signal; and modulating the pre-coded transmission signal into an OFDM symbol.
In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an OFDM communication system including a transmitter for transmitting a symbol having data signals and pilot signals and a receiver for receiving the symbol so as to recover the data signals. The transmitter comprises: a modulator for modulating input data signals so as to output a modulation signal according to at least one modulation scheme; a pilot inserter for inserting pilot signals into the modulation signal so as to output a transmission signal; a pre-coder for precoding the transmission signal so as to output a pre-coded signal; and an OFDM modulator for OFDM-modulating the pre-coded signal into a symbol and transmitting the symbol over antennas.
The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail herein below with reference to the annexed drawings. In the drawings, the same or similar entries are denoted by the same reference numerals even though they are depicted in different drawings. In the following description, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.
In the OFDM based mobile communication system, channels of individual OFDM symbol intervals are continuously changed. Accordingly, the conventional channel estimation technique using a preamble training signal does not work well in OFDM mobile communication system, such that the channel estimation and equalization should be performed per OFDM symbol using the pilot subcarriers therein.
The signal received via the antenna 65 of the receiver 5 is processed by a reception signal processor 60, and is demodulated by an OFDM demodulator 70. The demodulated signal is recovered to the transmit data after removing the pilot channel (pilot symbol) by an equalizer 80 using a channel estimation value estimated by a channel estimator 90 and then the transmit data is demodulated by a demodulator so as to be output as the original data.
The encoding process of the pre-encoder 30 is performed by multiplying the symbol S by a pre-code matrix. The pre-code matrix is used after an arrangement of pilot subcarriers, used for time-varying channel estimation, has been determined. If the pilot subcarriers are grouped and arranged in a subcarrier domain at intervals of the same distance, optimum time-varying channel estimation performance can be expected.
The ICI cancellation method of the present invention is mainly comprised of a pre-code configuration process, a time-varying channel estimation process using the pre-code, and a time-varying channel equalization process using a time-varying channel estimation value.
1. Pre-Code Configuration Process
For example, the matrix CE is generated by, when
is an integer, forming
discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) matrix and removing a first column of the
DFT matrix or by, when
generating
Hadamard matrix and removing a first column. In this case, the preceding matrix is composed of 1's or −1's so as to be simply used for preceding.
2. Time-Varying Channel Estimation Process
The transmitter can transmit Ncp(D−n) symbols modulated with PSK or QAM during a single OFDM symbol interval. The least number of the symbols in one OFDM symbol for performing the ICI self-cancellation is Ncp (in case of n=1). A transmission vector (symbol) S, as illustrated in
3. Time-Varying Channel Equalization Process
The receiver equalizes a reception signal after performing an OFDM demodulation process, to recover transmission data symbols. The equalization process acquires an H matrix from the time varying channel estimation value using Equation 1 and acquires an HD matrix using Equation 2.
HD=Hθ (2)
If AWGN noise between the transmission signal vector S and the reception signal vector Y generated after the transmission end performs a DFT process is ignored, the reception signal Y can be denoted as in Equation 3.
Y=HDS (3)
After performing the precoding process, the matrix HD can be configured in the form as illustrated in
Interference caused by pilot subcarriers on the basis of a decoded reception signal is cancelled by the following Equation 4:
where SPk) is a k-th pilot symbol among NcpP transmission pilot symbols, and i(k) is a subcarrier index of each pilot subcarrier used for the k-th pilot symbol. i(k) can be expressed as in Equation 5.
i(k)=N/NCP·[k/P]+(k mod P) (5)
A vector Yc acquired by ICI cancellation removes interference (i.e., hD(i(k)), where k=0, . . . ,(NCPP−1)) caused by pilot symbols affecting overall subcarrier reception signals from the matrix HD illustrated in
YF(k)=HF(k)SF(k),k=0, . . . ,(nNCP−1) (6)
The transmission data symbols SF(·) are estimated and/or detected by an MMSE (Minimum Mean Squared Error) or V-BLAST scheme, such that they are restored to transmission data.
At the receiver, the pilot symbols are damaged by interference derived from the data symbols, such that a time-varying channel estimation performance is deteriorated, resulting in deterioration of detection performance of a transmission signal. Therefore, in order to solve the aforementioned problems, the present invention provides an ICI cancellation method using a precoding scheme such that it can carry out ICI-self-cancellation operation without using channel information.
The preceding matrix is based on unique characteristics of a channel matrix H between OFDM transmission and reception signals X and Y shown in Equation 1. If a channel variation occurs during a single OFDM symbol interval, ICI occurs, such that the matrix H is changed to a matrix of which entries are all zeros. If a channel variation is slow, diagonal entries of the matrix H are set to high values, and other entries positioned at a remote site from the diagonal entries are set to relatively low values, such that the remaining entries other than peripheral entries of the diagonal entries are negligible. However, the faster the channel variation, the smaller the values of the diagonal entries. Additionally, the values of non-diagonal entries become greater (i.e., the ICI increases).
In this case, values of entries far away from the diagonal entries increases such that they are not negligible, which increases the channel estimation errors of the conventional channel estimation scheme. As can be seen from non-diagonal entries of the matrix H, it can be experimentally understood that individual entries have values similar to those of their peripheral entries other than diagonal entries. The preceding matrix of the present invention uses such characteristics of the matrix H.
Referring to a reception signal corresponding to a pilot subcarrier so as to find a method for reducing ICI a channel estimation mode using pilot symbols, a subcarrier corresponding to a subcarrier index k is used as a pilot subcarrier. If AWGN noise is neglected, a reception signal of the subcarrier k can be denoted as in Equation 7.
where
represents pilot subcarriers known to the receiver in order to be a desired signal component for performing a time-varying channel estimation, and
represents data subcarriers, which are to be regarded as noise. Non-diagonal entries of the matrix H have values similar to those of peripheral entries, such that the data subcarrier transmission signal acting as noise can be removed on the condition that the data subcarrier transmission signal is configured in the form as shown in Equation 8.
The precoding matrix of the present invention enables a symbol to be transmitted to have the characteristics of Equation 8. In order for the preceding matrix to have the characteristic, the condition, i.e.
where Cm is indicative of 1×(D/n−1) row vector defined by cE=[c0T . . . C(D/n−1)T]T, should be satisfied.
In conclusion, if the precoding process is adopted to a transmission data symbol, the noise is reduced during the channel estimation such that estimation performance is improved. When the precoding matrix θ illustrates in
Provided that the condition 1 is satisfied, a maximum diversity gain can be acquired by the precoding process. However, provided that the preceding matrix is configured to satisfy the three conditions and to obtain a maximum encoding gain, a slight encoding gain can be acquired. Particularly, the condition 3 is for restricting a transmit power.
The relationship shown in Equation 2 is established between the transmission signal vector S and the reception signal vector Y. The matrix HD is configured in the form illustrated in
The precoding matrix's specific parts multiplied by pilot subcarriers are identity matrices, and ICIs caused by them are not attenuated so that they affect overall subcarriers. Therefore, ICIs caused by pilot subcarriers must be removed from a reception signal.
The matrix HD can be acquired from a time-varying channel estimation value, and the reception end pre-recognizes pilot symbols, such that ICI cancellation using pilots can be established by Equation 4. The matrix CE from among the precoding matrices is multiplied by data subcarrier symbols, and is determined to be zero ‘0’ when entries of individual rows are summed up using the condition 2, so that non-diagonal entries of the matrix H have values similar to those of their peripheral entries other than diagonal entries. Some parts far from the diagonal entries of the matrix HD are cancelled and thereby include values approximating ‘0’. Therefore, ICI is cancelled, such that the relationship between transmission and reception signals can be partitioned if needed.
ICI caused when a frequency offset exists between the transmission and reception ends has the same configuration as in a channel variation case, such that it can be cancelled by the precoding process of the present invention.
Simulation environments for comparing BER performance of the present invention with those of the conventional arts will hereinafter be described:
[Channel Environments]
The number of Channel Taps: 8 (Jakes Model, exponentially-reduced power profile)
[OFDM Parameters]
The aforementioned simulation compares individual BER performances of the present invention using a preceding code denoted by P=3, D=5, and n=1 based on a DFT matrix, the conventional time-varying channel estimation/equalization method (i.e., 2nd prior art) in the case of P=4, and another conventional ICI-self-cancellation modulation/demodulation method (1st prior art) in the case of an encoding rate of 1/2, while being classified according to a UE's moving speed. The aforementioned three cases have the same band efficiency. The first prior art transmits 31 information symbols to a prescribed destination. The first prior art uses a noncoherent modulation scheme, and thereby there is no need to perform a channel estimation process, such that pilot subcarriers are also not required.
As indicated above,
When using the precoding method of the present invention, although the number of pilot subcarriers used for channel estimation is reduced to provide the same band efficiency, a channel estimation performance is improved due to an ICI reduction effect caused by the preceding method, and an SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) is also improved because data is transmitted over D subcarriers in such a way that a BER performance of the present invention is greatly superior to those of the conventional arts.
As is apparent from the description above, an ICI cancellation method of the present invention cancels a data subcarrier signal component, which acts as an interference signal during a time-varying channel estimation mode, resulting in improved time-varying channel estimation performance.
In addition, the ICI cancellation method of the present invention performs relationship division between transmission/reception signals while executing a time-varying channel equalization mode by means of the precoding process, such that equalization complexity can be simplified without causing performance deterioration.
Further, the ICI cancellation method of the present invention cancels even ICIs generated by a frequency offset between transmission/reception ends by means of the precoding process.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed for illustrative purposes, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.
Lee, Yong-Hoon, Hwang, Chan-Soo, Kim, Ho-Jin, Nam, Seung-Hoon, Lee, Jong-hyeuk, Kim, Eung-Sun, Yun, Jae-Yeun
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